Bombardier pockets new orders in Poland, India

Bombardier Transportation announced in Berlin Friday that along with consortium partner Vossloh Kiepe it has won an order from the Krakow, Poland, for 14 low-floor FLEXITY Classic trams valued at $76 million. Bombardier’s share is worth approximately $50 million. Bombardier will build the trams at its plant in Bautzen, Germany.

Bombardier also announced an order for 40 metro cars worth about $55 million from India's Delhi Metro Rail Corp. Ltd. The deal adds to last month’s $101 million order by Delhi Metro for 74 cars. Once the order is filled in 2011, Delhi Metro will be operating a fleet of 538 of Bombardier’s MOVIA metro cars.

Bombardier signed its first contract with Delhi Metro in July 2007 and opened a manufacturing plant in Savli, Gujarat, in November 2008. Once an expansion of the Delhi Metro is complete, the system will carry 2.5 million passengers a day and cover 165 kilometers in the city of 16 million inhabitants.